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ORCID in Finland?

How to take advantage of ORCID in institutional repositories, Open Repositories 2014, June 9

Jyrki Ilva (jyrki.ilva@helsinki.fi)

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Researcher identification in Finland

• CSC – IT Center for Science conducted a preliminary survey last year, co-
• rdinated by Hanna-Mari Puuska, and commissioned by the Finnish

Ministry of Education and Culture

• ”Researcher Identification – alternatives for the implementation at the

national level” (Report, in Finnish, December, 2013)

• The aims of the Ministry:
• Improved statistical basis for the performance of Finnish research
• rganizations
• Uniform practices among the research organizations for reporting

affiliations

• Linking of reported publications to identified authors
• Streamlined processes for data collection

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Where are we now?

• Finnish higher education institutions (HEIs) report data on

their education and research activities annually for the Ministry of Education and Culture, including

• Publications
• Contracted personnel
• 14 universities and 24 universities of applied sciences report

bibliographic data on ~37,000 publications per year

• Statistical data: www.vipunen.fi
• Metadata of publications: www.juuli.fi
• The authors of publications are not uniquely identified and can

not be combined with personnel data

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Potential identifiers for researchers (1)

• National identifiers
• Social security number
• University-specific person number
• National student number (OID)
• Usage of these identifiers for authors of publications is limited

due to privacy protection

• Not usable for harvesting the publications of researchers from

international databases

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Potential identifiers for researchers (2)

• ResearcherID & Scopus AuthorID
• Limited to publications in WoS/Scopus
• ISNI
• Processes primarily designed for other types of content
• ORCID – main strengths
• Designed for the needs of scientific publishing and research administration
• A researcher’s ORCID ID is public
• Various scientific publishers, CRIS platform providers and research
• rganizations involved
• Interoperable with other international identifiers
• ORCID – concerns
• Development is at an early stage – not too many Finnish researchers have

registered yet

• Legal issues in regard to disclosure of personal data to ORCID (registered in

USA)?

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”Vision for the future”

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ORCID and Finnish repositories?

• Finland currently has separate CRIS and repository infrastructures
• Their processes have been integrated to some extent at some
• rganizations (more so in the future)
• The repositories would benefit from a general national solution for

ORCID adoption

• In an ideal situation the ORCIDs should for the most part come with

the publication metadata from other systems - possible exceptions:

• Theses (both student & doctoral)?
• Legacy publications?
• Research data?

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ORCID and Finnish journals

• Many of the Finnish research publications come out in national journals,

which are not part of the international infrastructure

• Most of them are published by scholarly societies, with small resources

and no automated submission systems

• The ARTIVA project (co-ordinated by the National Library) has produced an

ingest system with which the publishers can submit their article level metadata into national databases (& from there to CRIS & repository)

• However, for the adoption of ORCID the system would have to involve

the authors, too

• A new report on the economical models for OA publishing in Finland (by

Jyrki Ilva & Johanna Lilja, May 2014) suggests that the technological infrastructure of the journals should be improved with central funding.

• Would support the wider adoption of DOI and ORCID among the

Finnish journals

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Thank you!

jyrki.ilva@helsinki.fi